President Donald Trump is back on Twitter, and he has a new yarn to spin.

Contradicting both his own intelligence agencies and a verbatim statement made by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, Trump claimed on Tuesday that Russia will “be pushing hard for the Democrats” in the upcoming election, and that “They definitely don’t want Trump.”

I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!

Then, on Thursday, Trump announced that he was inviting Putin to visit the White House sometime in the fall, catching his own Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats completely off guard.

Now it seems Trump is back to accepting the threat of Russian election interference ― but despite what Putin himself publicly acknowledged last week, for some reason the president believes Russia “will be pushing hard for the Democrats.”

U.S. intelligence agencies have long maintained Russia engaged in information warfare on social media throughout the 2016 election with the intent of helping Trump get elected.

And Russia went even further. In addition to flooding platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit with disinformation, the Department of Homeland Security says Russia attempted to gain access to voting systems in 21 states during the election, seven of which were reportedly said to have been “compromised.”